Morality in the Guise of Dreams

A Critical Edition of Kitāb Al-Manām, with Introduction, by Leah Kinberg
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-09818-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Arabisch, Band 18, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 868 g

Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies

This important Book of Dreams K. al-Manam by Ibn Abi al-Dunya (d. 281/894), a compendium of 350 Muslim dream narratives in Arabic, is now critically edited for the first time. Although dream accounts are scattered throughout most genres of classical Arabic literature, K. al-Manam is the only extant treatise dedicated solely to this topic. With the aim to provide the pious Muslim with a code of behaviour, the book relates dreams that deliver clear messages, of the kind that can be followed with no need for interpretation. The scholarly introduction in English gives a survey of the contents of the Arabic text, emphasizing the unique features of the book, while concentrating on their contribution to practical ethics, and examines the role dreams play in various genres of classical Arabic literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kinberg

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kinberg, Leah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Leah Kinberg, Ph.D. (1977) in Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan. Teaches at Tel Aviv University and is Head of the Arabic Department at Levinsky Teachers College, Israel. Has studied the function of dreams in the Islamic world and the interaction between the present world and the world to come, and reconstructed two lost treatises of Ibn Abi al-Dunya, Kitab al-Mawt and Kitab al-Qubur (Haifa, 1983).